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• Commented on How to tell if you are being boring
  I will tell you about my latest circuit board design and I won't stop until you say I'm not boring. So there....
• Commented on Car hit by wrecking ball in NYC?
  If that 6 foot diameter wrecking ball was made of steel, as real wrecking balls tend to be, it would weigh 25 tons. The car would have traveled sideways across the street and the ball would have slowed down slightly,...
• Commented on ASCII art from 1934
  ASCII?...
• Commented on From the Toilet to the Tap
  My campmates and I have been working on this on a small scale at Burning Man the last few years. It's quite amazing to watch wastewater become cleaner and cleaner as it gets filtered various ways. We don't drink the...
• Commented on Surprised kitten is surprised
  Godwin's law on the second comment! A new record! But seriously, newborn humans do this too. It's called the startle reflex....
• Commented on Rumor: will iconic Technics DJ turntables be discontinued?
  And the next thing you know, Epson will stop making the MX-80 printer....
• Commented on Vote early, vote often
  Adweek? But I use AdBlock to avoid ads. Am I bad?...
• Commented on Wikipedia's facts-about-facts make the impossible real
  Having just written my first Wikipedia entry from scratch, I learned a lot about the concept of "facts about facts" and whether one should trust the published sources quoted in Wikipedia entries. I was going to put in some quotes...
• Commented on Bad-ass Mad Max campout weekend, complete with working gyrocopter!
  It's just like Burning Man, but without all the goddamn hippies! Or the goddamn rules!...
• Commented on Sneaky pinball makers' tricks
  Those sneaky pinball designers! It only stands to reason that they'd do slot-machine tricks on a pinball. My 1976 Gottlieb Ship Ahoy game doesn't have that problem. But it doesn't have a match unit at all, and it gives only...
• Commented on Shackleton's Antarctic whisky found
  Drilling in the Antarctic to get it out will make this the most expensive whiskey around. Imagine what it will fetch on eBay!...
• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Looks like we're heading towards Microsoft's Internet vs everyone else's Internet. I already know which one I'll look at....
• Commented on Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Microwave Lava
  This does transcend the loveliness of the grape-in-the-microwave trick, but I doubt that folks would let me do it at their house with their microwave oven....
• Commented on Crucifix multi-screwdriver
  Nice idea and all that, but the driver bits don't look sharp enough to actually work. Is that a necessary result of the laser sintering process, or did it just get deburred to the point of uselessness?...
• Commented on Mac|Life imagines Apple products of the future
  The caption for this one should say, "You can make the plastic cases for various gadgets at home." Because it sure as heck can't make ICs or capacitors or any of that other stuff that comprises electronic circuitry. Carbon resistors,...
• Commented on Replacing a switch on an electric shaver
  No kidding! I have had the switches fail on three different (older) models of Norelco shavers. Other than the stupid switch design, which seems to cut every corner there is to be cut, they are excellent appliances. At least the...
• Commented on DRM-free, free-as-in-beer Dutch Little Brother ebook
  You gotta love an author who tells his readers NOT to buy his book, but to download it for free instead. Expect a lawsuit any minute....
• Commented on The decline of civilization symbolized in a modern light socket
  http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=102469§ion=10183 That is the one with screws - model number 9350 instead of 8101. But Leviton's search page sucks. It took me 10 minutes of valuable Internet time to find that....
• Commented on Stupid, draw back your bow
  Huh - I suppose there are such things in my spam box, but I have inline images turned off and I never click on links in spam. So I don't know what the fake Viagra ads look like. I just...
• Commented on Eyeball removal tool
  Geez. Another creepy/cutesy industry that I was living life just fine not knowing about. Now I need a unicorn pony-killer chaser....
• Commented on Humanizing Psystar
  As a Mac user for 23 years and an inveterate tinkerer and cheapskate, I have admiration for what these guys are doing. OS X is a fine OS, but the lack of choice on the hardware end is very frustrating....
• Commented on Dress made with 24,000 LEDs
  Now you've got my attention. I sure hope they wired it up as a video screen, since it would make a killer video screen....
• Commented on 8-way video card
  The radiotelescope I work on *has* eight 2560 x 1600 displays. This board would be rather useful, eliminating a computer from the system....
• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  The best solution at this point is to cut your losses, accept that that time you wasted on the phone is gone forever, return the machine for a full refund (with your explanation of why you returned it) and never...
• Commented on Oil running out faster than the International Energy Agency admits, says whistleblower
  People in the industry like to give optimistic predictions; no surprise there. We can expect the price to go up dramatically in the next few decades, but the rate of that increase depends on many unpredictable variables in the world's...
• Commented on World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
  This toy does stand on the shoulders of giants, but it is a cheap toy. The only reason that it uses such technology is that it's ubiquitous and cheap as dirt. The silicon chip that plays the music is not...
• Commented on Clock on a bicycle chain
  It is striking, literally, if you need a self-defense weapon. Just grab the chain off the cog and strike the intruder with it. It's a lovely clock, too....
• Commented on The men who stare at Goatse
  It took a couple reads of the marquee before I saw it - I guess goatse is a bit too common in my daily reading material. No comment....
• Commented on Beautiful infographic: "The Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe"
  It does make more sense than what the scientists tell us is out there - hexillions of miles of empty space with the occasional star every 10 trillion miles....
• Commented on The Art of Jim Campbell: Seeing In Pixels
  This is the same as my http://www.cathodecorner.com/satanvision/ SatanVision, but taken to an extreme. I used 12,288 pixels to produce what are amazingly detailed images of people and other recognizable things on a big LED television. It is quite interesting to...